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Muck

By N.J. Dodic

N.J. Dodic, in his second novel, Muck, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the convention of basing a novel around the interplay between a main text and its “editor’s” footnotes, which occurs most famously in Pale ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flying to Yellow

By Linda Holeman

Yellow is, as Alexander Theroux has written, a colour “with a thousand meanings.” Connoting both glory and disturbing estrangement, it contains, Theroux contends, an opposing duality.This duality is central to Flying to Yellow, a debut ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Self: A Novel

By Yann Martel

Yann Martel is probably best known for “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios,” which first appeared in the Malahat Review in 1990 and subsequently in the third Journey Prize Anthology and after that as the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Can Make Nature Crafts

By Mary Wallace

The bright, close-cut photos of this book give the impression of lively content. In reality, this thin craft book for young children is a collection of unexciting projects, many of which have a tenuous relationship ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

A Place Not Home

By Eva Wiseman

This novel begins in Budapest, on the night of October 23, 1956, as 13-year-old Nelly and her family huddle for safety amid the sounds of gunfire. The blasting in the streets marks the beginning of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Billy and the Bearman

By David A. Poulsen

At first glance, 12-year-old Billy Gavin and 17-year-old John “Bearman” Redell seem to be unlikely allies. Billy is an underconfident city kid, while the Bearman (named for his skill in tracking bears in the woods) ... Read More »

March 19, 2004